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Re:The invented Chinese names of the 2019 Canadian federal e... by dnautics on Monday October 21, 2019 @06:56PM (#21318477)
I was always amused that "pine" street in San Francisco is transliterated to "plank" in chinese. Broadway, incidentally, is "avenue of 100 old people".
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Re:The invented Chinese names of the 2019 Canadian federal e... by solstice on Monday October 21, 2019 @09:16PM (#21319420)
Another example: the Chinese name for SF is Laojinshan (老金山) afaik, which translates to Old Gold Mountain and sounds nothing like Hispanic/English name. I think it dates back to the California gold rush
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Re:The invented Chinese names of the 2019 Canadian federal e... by osdiab on Monday October 21, 2019 @09:58PM (#21319661)
It's 旧金山 (jiu jin shan), but otherwise you're right.
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Re:The invented Chinese names of the 2019 Canadian federal e... by morningseagulls on Monday October 21, 2019 @11:06PM (#21320029)
And in case anyone was wondering, the "New Gold Mountain" is another name for Melbourne[0].

[0] https://www.google.com/search?q=%E6%96%B0%E9%87%91%E5%B1%B1

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Re:The invented Chinese names of the 2019 Canadian federal e... by SideburnsOfDoom on Tuesday October 22, 2019 @08:53AM (#21323022)
The Melbourne Gold rush was in the 1850s-1860s so the "new" part has become inaccurate.

See also: "New Forest", England, 1079.

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Re:The invented Chinese names of the 2019 Canadian federal e... by morningseagulls on Thursday October 24, 2019 @10:39AM (#21345089)
>The Melbourne Gold rush was in the 1850s-1860s so the "new" part has become inaccurate.

It also happened just a few years (very much less than a decade) after the California Gold Rush, and there were other gold rushes after that, so I'm not sure why it's "new" either.

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Re:The invented Chinese names of the 2019 Canadian federal e... by solstice on Tuesday October 22, 2019 @12:18PM (#21325435)
啊呀, it seems I wasn't awake enough yet when posting. Thank you for the correction.
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Re:The invented Chinese names of the 2019 Canadian federal e... by binarysolo on Monday October 21, 2019 @10:06PM (#21319710)
re: Broadway - it's because the Chinese name is borrowed from NYC's Broadway - 百老匯.

Chinese translators really like to translate names and locations which impart some meaning but still sound kinda similar to actual word. Bai-lao-hui sounds kinda like Broadway to a Chinese person. Also, presumably NYC's Broadway is an avenue of a hundred old people because affluent (older) people go to watch musicals more.

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